Spending cuts: you haven’t seen the half of it

The deficit hasn’t gone away just because growth is back. But don’t expect the politicians to tell you what’s in store

Tim Montgomerie

Thursday July 03 2014, 1.01am, The Times

Tim Montgomerie

Thursday July 03 2014, 1.01am, The Times

If England’s World Cup exit and Andy Murray’s defeat at Wimbledon have left you feeling depressed can I suggest you look away now? For those of you still with me I’d like to take you back by time machine to the last election.

Would you have voted for David Cameron if he had told you he would cut local government spending by 30 per cent, justice by 35 per cent and the foreign office budget by more than half? Would many public sector workers have supported the Tories or the Liberal Democrats if they’d known one million jobs in local and national government would be chopped during the course of this parliament? Would you have voted for Nick Clegg if he had mentioned in the